1) teaching children about the treatment and allowing some autonomy in how they engage with treatment.
2) brief behavioral interventions between caregiver and the patient such as thinking about ways of overcoming challenges to completing treatments

Adolescents may feel stigmatized or alienated by their medical procedures and medications they have to take around peers unaware of their condition

Social Challenges of Cystic Fibrosis for Adolescent Patients

Quittner, A. L., Saez-Flores, E., & Barton, J. D. (2016). The psychological burden of cystic fibrosis. Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 22(2), 187–191. https://doi.org/10.1097/mcp.0000000000000244

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